Gomersal, West Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church

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Now known as Gomersal Trinity Methodist Church.

Occasional services were held in Gomersal Town School in Moor Lane and meetings were held in houses in the 1820's. On Sundays Gomersal Methodists attended Birstall Wesleyan Methodist Church.

A Sunday School was established some years before 1828 using Gomersal Town School. A chapel was built at the corner of West Lane, Latham Road and Ferrand Lane in 1827 and opened in 1828. Edward Brooke, a local preacher, was the main promoter of the chapel. In 1861 a Sunday School was built in Latham Lane next door to the chapel, and was subsequently extended in 1897. From 1964 the church was known as Gomersal Trinity Methodist Church when the congregations of West Lane, Moor Lane and Little Gomersal amalgamated using the premises at West Lane. The church is now called Gomersal Methodist Church and is still in existence in 2009

Records relating to this church can be found at West Yorkshire Archive Service: Kirklees under the reference numbers: KC273/12 and KC273/31.